​Kinship Care

What is Kinship Care?

​Mecklenburg Kinship Care is a support program for grandparents and kinship family caregivers. Kinship Care refers to the care of children by relatives in an informal or formal arrangement.   There are an estimated 6 million children in the US living in families headed by a grandparent or other relative caregiver.  Read the latest Kinship Navigator Newsletter.

Services Offered

• Monthly Support Group Meetings
• Kinship Care Conference
• Triple P (Parenting Education)

• Community Social Work Services
• Foster Care and Adoptive Services
• Assistance with school attendance issues and concerns available for those who qualify
• Additional services such as respite and trainings are offered to caregivers who qualify

Kinship Care providers may be eligible for the following pubic assistance:

• Food & Nutrition Services (formerly known as Food Stamps):
  provides supplemental food assistance to parents and kinship care providers with minor children
• Medicaid for Family & Children and Adults:
  provides coverage for medical care and services to parents and kinship care providers with minor children
• Work First Family Assistance:
  provides cash assistance to parents and kinship care providers with minor children

Useful Links: 

Please check out our Tools & Resource Guide. 

Learn where you can apply for public assistance.

Check potential eligibility with ePASS.